Meaning of quarter-day | Babel Free

Definitions

Each of the four days customarily regarded as starting a new quarter year, on which rents etc are often due.

British

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Examples

“If you would only allow⟳ us, poor chroniclers of progress⟳, to invent⟳ a discovery now and then, we might give⟳ you a trimensual surprise⟳, the effects of which would keep⟳ you up to the superlative degree of astonishment from one quarter-day to another.”

“1908, It is late in March⟳, so quarter-day is at hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge’ (Norton 2005, p. 1239)”

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